(In the later "Honey's Money," Wentworth is completely innocent, his giant weight causing trouble for Sam, who tries to get rid of him to keep the money for himself.)
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Both "His Bitter Half" and a later short -- 1962's "Honey's Money" -- have a similar plot: a fortune-seeking bachelor marrying an ugly mean widow and, after forced to do backbreaking housechores, being made to care for her child, introduced (to both the main protagonist and the audience) only after the marriage is legalized.
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